It's a condition I call being "Pathologically poor".
You'll see it in people nitpicking and haggling and generally making an ass of themselves as if they're a step away from the poor house, even though they're doing things which obviously don't qualify them as poor.
This is to be discerned from "Smart shopping" from the desperate nature of it. "Those AMD bastards are so EXPENSIVE!!" for 32 bucks on a 1000 dollar processor is a goof example. However, keep in mind that some people using AMD processors these days were the pathologically poor people of yesteryear who wanted to save a buck at any cost.:P
If man is the archetect of religion, then doesn't is stand that religion is not the work of God?
The moment you start treating religion like a democracy, you have murdered your own God. The three major religions are quite clear on this: God is the king -- he's the one in charge. If you overthrow God, that's fine, but you no longer have a religion, you have little more than a hierarchy.
This is a dangerous proposition. However, I notice that you're OCG, one of the leading humorists on Slashdot, so I shall now bow to your subjectively superior prowess.:P
Ok then, describe how an automobile works in terms precise enough that the person listening has a complete understanding of the car, and the concepts which make it work.
The problem is that "the world" would be living in caves still if it wasn't for geeks communicating in their awkward, yet superbly precise, way.
Yeah, it's more or less impossible for the voltage on a line to change instantly.
Since voltage is the potential energy held by the electrons(The unit for voltage is joules/coulomb) in a location, there is going to be some propogation delay when voltages change. When you're talking about components this fast, it's not an unreasonable idea to think that you'll be able to utilize the propogation delay.
You'll have to present some proof. To get vlc running, I just double-clicked the icon and installed as usual. It opens every video file I click on now, just as intuitive as Windows Media Player, except that the interface it less cluttered with confusing tabs and such. Same for OpenOffice's installation. I also run gaim as my IM client. In fact, the majority of the programs I run are open source, and came from the Linux side of things, and seem to run perfectly well and without the need for any Linuxian manual hopping or frantic google searching.
I'd sooner guess that the difference is due to a larger abundance of inexpensive players from other manufacturers, and a possible premium on the price of iPods. I got my 256MB player for about $100CDN this summer, but you can already get a 512MB player for $80CDN at some stores. Multi-gigabyte players tend to command a hefty price premium, but even there, a 2GB iPod nano was on for the same as a 20GB Creative Nomad this week.
Almost every modern UNIX, not just Linux, uses either KDE or GNOME. This includes BSDs and many commercial UNIXes.
KDE and GNOME are both already saturating the market. Unless more Linux and UNIX boxes appear, it is not mathematically possible to significantly increase their collective share. Thus, the arguement that they could become much more popular by changing their name is a red herring.
Most people who would use them already are. In order to increase their ranks, there will have to be more people in a position to use them, not more name recognition among the people who could but don't.
I'm afraid that your post comes off as a troll, nothing more.
There are lots of people like me who use tonnes of Free software on their windows PCs because it just works. I never have to wonder if mplayer or vlc will play a video, because I know it just will. That's just one of an infinite variety of examples.
I use FreeBASIC to code because I'm strange and like BASIC syntax. No linux involved. If I wanted to, I could install Litestep or blackbox on my desktop and do away with explorer altogether. If I supplemented that with a Cygwin or Msys command line, as many developers use, We've managed to Unixify our desktops without dealing with the strangeness of the Linux platform. There is a non-trivial number of people who do just that.
Similarly, unless you already know from elsewhere, How the hell would you know what a Ford Mustang is? Or an Areostar?
The vast majority of brand names are nonsensical unless you know what the product does. It doesn't matter if you're selling computer chips or cell phones or corn chips or boats (Lund? WTF is a Lund?) or cars or computers or cameras. The fact that the author didn't realize this indicates to me that there wasn't a terribly great amount of thought put into this article.
I'm all for it. Let's box up the individual programs in Linux Distros and sell them to clueless morons for 20 bucks a pop. "But they come for free with the distro!" "No, these ones are WORTH MORE because I PAID FOR THEM."
KDE and GNOME have the top two spots in the WM game by such a long shot it's kind of sick. Against these two products which both dominate in their area, your arguement is a red herring.
Ok smart guy, what does Maya do? How about LabView? Concept? How about Wonderware? Delta-V?
There is a problem here, but you're ignoring it -- The english language has a limited name space, and we can't have 1000 applications all calling themselves "3d modeller", "Software PLC program", "Ladder Logic Editor", "Human/Machine Interface creator", or "Distributive Control System application".
Since we need a different name for everything, those names will start dipping into wierdness. This isn't just in software, this is in EVERYTHING. What is a sensor-XL? A Mach-3? Why am I buying an Apple Macintosh? What is a Macintosh? What is a Granny Smith? What on gods green earth is a Dell?
In a perfect world, there'd be only one perfect instance of everything, sort of like platos forms, and we'd just use that. However, it's just not going to happen. It's utterly childish to be slagging any given platform for this, because it's just how the world works by neccesity.
I'm 21, and in my second year of college. People just don't have these things.
Right off the top of my head, I've got some chinese monstrosity(Company doesn't even have a website), my father has an RCA Lyra, my roommate has a Sony network walkman, Two of my brothers have Lyras, and the few classmates whose mp3 players I've seen tend to have Sonys.
I wouldn't call the market penetration of the iPods that significant where I am. Maybe this phenomena is a Winnipeg/Northwestern Ontario thing.
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Ah! Zee reichstag ist burning again! Zee terrorists are to blame!
"How much does that weigh?"
"Ham!"
Don't even TRY to critisize it.
It's not FOR you.
Positive feedback?! But that would drive your games into saturation!!!
Then your OS would upset and you'd have to shut everything down!
Yeah, companies laugh all the way to the bank at attitudes like yours.
"Introducing GAMERS FAX MACHINE! Just like a regular fax machine, but DESIGNED BY GAMERS FOR GAMERS!"
Oh well, P.T. Barnum and all...
It's a condition I call being "Pathologically poor".
:P
You'll see it in people nitpicking and haggling and generally making an ass of themselves as if they're a step away from the poor house, even though they're doing things which obviously don't qualify them as poor.
This is to be discerned from "Smart shopping" from the desperate nature of it. "Those AMD bastards are so EXPENSIVE!!" for 32 bucks on a 1000 dollar processor is a goof example. However, keep in mind that some people using AMD processors these days were the pathologically poor people of yesteryear who wanted to save a buck at any cost.
The mini-distribution of Windows 3.1 used in the Windows 95/98/me installer can be hacked to function on a single floppy disk.
Scared yet?
If man is the archetect of religion, then doesn't is stand that religion is not the work of God?
The moment you start treating religion like a democracy, you have murdered your own God. The three major religions are quite clear on this: God is the king -- he's the one in charge. If you overthrow God, that's fine, but you no longer have a religion, you have little more than a hierarchy.
To accept only the parts of religion that you like is to murder God.
If more than a few gun-toting buffoons around the globe realized this, we might live in a better world.
I'm a Lutheran, you pretentious ass.
There you go trying to objectivize humor again.
:P
This is a dangerous proposition. However, I notice that you're OCG, one of the leading humorists on Slashdot, so I shall now bow to your subjectively superior prowess.
Ok then, describe how an automobile works in terms precise enough that the person listening has a complete understanding of the car, and the concepts which make it work.
The problem is that "the world" would be living in caves still if it wasn't for geeks communicating in their awkward, yet superbly precise, way.
Yeah, it's more or less impossible for the voltage on a line to change instantly.
Since voltage is the potential energy held by the electrons(The unit for voltage is joules/coulomb) in a location, there is going to be some propogation delay when voltages change. When you're talking about components this fast, it's not an unreasonable idea to think that you'll be able to utilize the propogation delay.
You'll have to present some proof. To get vlc running, I just double-clicked the icon and installed as usual. It opens every video file I click on now, just as intuitive as Windows Media Player, except that the interface it less cluttered with confusing tabs and such. Same for OpenOffice's installation. I also run gaim as my IM client. In fact, the majority of the programs I run are open source, and came from the Linux side of things, and seem to run perfectly well and without the need for any Linuxian manual hopping or frantic google searching.
Winnpeg is comperable in size to Nashville. :P
I'd sooner guess that the difference is due to a larger abundance of inexpensive players from other manufacturers, and a possible premium on the price of iPods. I got my 256MB player for about $100CDN this summer, but you can already get a 512MB player for $80CDN at some stores. Multi-gigabyte players tend to command a hefty price premium, but even there, a 2GB iPod nano was on for the same as a 20GB Creative Nomad this week.
There's just no good reason to pay the premium.
And with a five digit slashdot uid this suprises you?
:P
It's what slashdot does! If people actually formed informed opinions before opening their mouths, this place would only get 1/1000th of the traffic!
You don't seem to understand my arguement.
Almost every modern UNIX, not just Linux, uses either KDE or GNOME. This includes BSDs and many commercial UNIXes.
KDE and GNOME are both already saturating the market. Unless more Linux and UNIX boxes appear, it is not mathematically possible to significantly increase their collective share. Thus, the arguement that they could become much more popular by changing their name is a red herring.
Most people who would use them already are. In order to increase their ranks, there will have to be more people in a position to use them, not more name recognition among the people who could but don't.
I'm afraid that your post comes off as a troll, nothing more.
There are lots of people like me who use tonnes of Free software on their windows PCs because it just works. I never have to wonder if mplayer or vlc will play a video, because I know it just will. That's just one of an infinite variety of examples.
I use FreeBASIC to code because I'm strange and like BASIC syntax. No linux involved. If I wanted to, I could install Litestep or blackbox on my desktop and do away with explorer altogether. If I supplemented that with a Cygwin or Msys command line, as many developers use, We've managed to Unixify our desktops without dealing with the strangeness of the Linux platform. There is a non-trivial number of people who do just that.
Similarly, unless you already know from elsewhere, How the hell would you know what a Ford Mustang is? Or an Areostar?
The vast majority of brand names are nonsensical unless you know what the product does. It doesn't matter if you're selling computer chips or cell phones or corn chips or boats (Lund? WTF is a Lund?) or cars or computers or cameras. The fact that the author didn't realize this indicates to me that there wasn't a terribly great amount of thought put into this article.
So what makes Xerox synonymous with copying while Azureus isn't synonymous with bittorrent?
Here. Have a Zire.
I'm all for it. Let's box up the individual programs in Linux Distros and sell them to clueless morons for 20 bucks a pop. "But they come for free with the distro!" "No, these ones are WORTH MORE because I PAID FOR THEM."
All humor is subjective. Ass.
KDE and GNOME have the top two spots in the WM game by such a long shot it's kind of sick. Against these two products which both dominate in their area, your arguement is a red herring.
Ok smart guy, what does Maya do?
How about LabView?
Concept?
How about Wonderware?
Delta-V?
There is a problem here, but you're ignoring it -- The english language has a limited name space, and we can't have 1000 applications all calling themselves "3d modeller", "Software PLC program", "Ladder Logic Editor", "Human/Machine Interface creator", or "Distributive Control System application".
Since we need a different name for everything, those names will start dipping into wierdness. This isn't just in software, this is in EVERYTHING. What is a sensor-XL? A Mach-3? Why am I buying an Apple Macintosh? What is a Macintosh? What is a Granny Smith? What on gods green earth is a Dell?
In a perfect world, there'd be only one perfect instance of everything, sort of like platos forms, and we'd just use that. However, it's just not going to happen. It's utterly childish to be slagging any given platform for this, because it's just how the world works by neccesity.
I'm 21, and in my second year of college. People just don't have these things.
Right off the top of my head, I've got some chinese monstrosity(Company doesn't even have a website), my father has an RCA Lyra, my roommate has a Sony network walkman, Two of my brothers have Lyras, and the few classmates whose mp3 players I've seen tend to have Sonys.
I wouldn't call the market penetration of the iPods that significant where I am. Maybe this phenomena is a Winnipeg/Northwestern Ontario thing.